Aloft (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy & Mélanie Laurent | |
Performer: | Ian Tracey, Oona Chaplin & Peter McRobbie | |
Directed by | Claudia Llosa | |
Screenplay by | Claudia Llosa | |
Composition by | Michael Brook | |
Director of Photography: | Nicolas Bolduc |
Entertainment Reviews:
Llosa's film pushes its enigmatic and quietly brooding qualities to the point that it's inaccessible, despite some mildly intriguing spiritual story elements and skilled performances ...
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Boston Globe
Rating: 3/4 --
All that Aloft wants to do is to tell a story about a son and his mother, surrounding it with spiritual themes and metaphors involving falconry. [Full review in Spanish]
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Cinencuentro
Rating: 2/4 --
Connelly, with her signature brand of serene toughness, does tragedy very well, but she doesn't really have a character to play here; just an endless series of tight close-ups and troubled expressions.
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Seattle Times
Aloft may have arisen from some unique personal mythology of maternalism, but it's brought down by abridgment, freezing out the feeling of whatever tragic pietà its maker may intend.
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SF Weekly
Rating: 1.5 --
Some movies practically dare you to give up. "Aloft" is a beautifully shot, frustratingly vague and deeply ponderous mystery/spiritual journey about terminally unhappy souls.
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: C+ --
Just when you're ready for "Aloft" to take wing, it ends.
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Detroit News
There's a difference between pursuing a personal vision and wallowing in your own fetishes, as writer/director Claudia Llosa has done here.
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Memphis Flyer
Product Description:
In this mystical and nonlinear drama, a mother (Jennifer Connelly) reunites with her estranged son (Cillian Murphy), whom she abandoned two decades earlier after a strange encounter with a faith healer.